History
GCSE Revision
Edexcel GCSE - History
Summer 2025
The History Exam with consist of:
Paper 1 - Medicine through time 1250-Present - 1hr 15mins - Friday 16th May (AM)
Paper 2 - Early Elizabethan England 1558-88; Superpower Relations and the Cold War - 1hr 45mins - Thursday 5th June (AM)
Paper 3 - Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939 - 1hr 20mins - Tuesday 10th June (PM)
History Specifications
Paper 1
Medicine through time 1250-Present
Medicine in medieval England
The medical Renaissance in England
Medicine in 18th and 19th century Britain
Medicine in modern Britain
The British Sector of the Western front 1914-1918
Paper 2
Early Elizabethan England 1558-88
Queen government and religion
Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad
Elizabethan society
Superpower Relations and the Cold War
Origins of the Cold War
Cold War crises
The end of the Cold War
Paper 3 Germany
Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
The Weimar Republic
Hitler's rise to power
Nazi control and dictatorship
Life in Nazi Germany